Livermore woman pleads no contest to sex with boys

LIVERMORE

Published 4:00 am, Friday, February 25, 2011

Christine Shreeve Hubbs listens to her attorney, Jules Bonjour, as she is arraigned for the alleged sexual assault of two boys Monday at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton.

Christine Shreeve Hubbs listens to her attorney, Jules Bonjour, as she is arraigned for the alleged sexual assault of two boys Monday at the Gale-Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton.

Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle

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A Livermore woman is expected to serve five years in state prison after pleading no contest Thursday to four felony counts for having sex with two underage boys.

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42, must register as a sex offender for the rest of her life as a result of her plea before Judge Kevin Murphy of Alameda County Superior Court to one count of unlawful sex with a minor and three counts of lewd acts with a child.

Hubbs first made an advance to one of the boys when he was 14 and was dating her daughter of the same age, authorities said. After the incident in December 2008, police said, she sent sexual text messages to the boy and gave him cash, expensive gifts and cellular telephones to maintain contact with her.

Authorities said Hubbs drove the boys in her Hummer to different locations in Livermore to engage in sex acts. Police said they learned of the crimes when a mother of one of the boys reported finding a nude photo of Hubbs on his phone.

In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped 63 other felony sex counts and several misdemeanor counts related to an incident in which she allegedly bought pellet and water guns for several boys and drove them around as they fired at bystanders from the windows. Hubbs will be sentenced March 25. She has been in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $4.3 million bail since her arrest in August.

Hubbs is married to a well-known dentist, Tim Hubbs, and has three children.

"She is very, very remorseful," said Hubbs' attorney, Michael Cardoza. "She wanted to accept responsibility and pay her debt for doing that and not have to put the accusers, the young men, through a trial and also expose her children to the harm it could cause them when all the facts came out."

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